College has never been my thing, I remember being a freshman about a month in and calling my mom to tell her college isn’t for me and that I wanted to drop out.
The first time I heard about the UB Spectrum was when one of my friends picked up a print copy of the paper and gave it to me, knowing that I would find it interesting.
Sure, constantly comparing your life to others can be harmful, but pretending comparison has no place at all can lead to ignorance. Comparison, when used with intention, helps us put life into perspective.
My New Years resolution is to stop obsessing about how others perceive me.
Hollywood has fallen victim to the parasitism of Wall Street.
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The Buffalo Bills have been dominating the field and steadily progressing this football season. Kicking off with a 41-40 win against the Baltimore Ravens, the Bills were on a winning streak until week five, when they lost back-to-back games against the New England Patriots and Atlanta Falcons.
Seasonal depression, otherwise known as Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD), is a mood disorder that comes around as a result of the seasons changing. Typically, it takes hold in late fall and can last through the winter.
There are no two things that go better together than movies and Halloween, some of the greatest genre defining movies to have come into the modern canon have gone on to make huge footprints in pop culture memory.
Bars, costumes and booze. You simply can’t get more Halloween than that. This past Saturday, bars on Chippewa Street in the heart of Downtown Buffalo banded together to host the seventh annual “Halloween Boo’zin Bar Crawl,” sponsored by Eventage.
Everything has its cycles; rap music is no different. Over the past few years, sales in mainstream rap music have taken a dip, as artists struggle to strike gold on the Billboard charts. Though mainstream rap is dying, the art of rap isn’t.
Holidays are some of the most special and magical times of the year. Everyone has a favorite for one reason or another and everyone has a special way to celebrate. One of the most common and important ways of getting into the holiday spirit is decorating.
Navigating the romantic scene in an era of dating apps and hookups
Over the last few years, and especially more recently, I find myself opening the news and immediately thinking, “When did people stop caring for others?”
In the fall of 2024, I began the journey of a lifetime. I lived in London for three months, studying at The Metropolitan University.
Over the past few years, a disappointing term has entered Gen Z’s public lexicon: “trauma dumping,” — the act of oversharing extremely personal and traumatic experiences with others.
Everyone remembers their favorite concert, the one that stood out amongst the rest. That core memory that solidified in your mind, “this is the best concert ever!” What determines that? What makes that one so much better than the rest?
In the fall of 1993 an audience of 7,500 — UB students, Buffalo residents, and fans from everywhere — gathered at Alumni Arena to watch the biggest band in the world. For many, it would be the first and last time they saw Nirvana.
Leading the student newspaper through its 75th year was an immense honor, and easily my biggest professional contribution to date.
I can tell a story forever, which is maybe why I’m here, but what I need to do now is thank everyone.
Solutions by The State News
